There has been quite a lot of news about the Suffolk Care homes going out of the control of Suffolk County Council.  Of course in these hard times you would expect our Labour councillors to be even handed and put the care of the elderly above the entrenched employment privileges of the Unison members.  You’d be wrong.  It may have something to do with the fact that Unison is one of the four unions who keep Labour financially afloat and choose the leader.

Anyway on Suffolk County Council’s website there are three care homes in Ipswich, Crabbe Street, Hawthorn Drive and Sidegate Lane.  Hawthorn Drive is the closest to Bridge.

For reference the care homes in Bridge Ward, together with who run them are:

Prince of Wales Drive Residential Care Home (The Partnership in Care Limited)

Peppercorn House (Riverside ECHG)

Montgomery Court (BUPA)

Gwent House, Pembroke Close (Ipswich Borough Council)

Pauls Flats, Rectory Road (Ipswich Borough Council)

Felaw Street (Hanover Housing Association)